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…tales. However, his most important work from this period was “The Wedding,” a ballet-cantata that combined Russian village wedding songs with Stravinsky’s unmistakable flair for modernist orchestration. The French Period:…

…7, 1860, in Kaliště, a small village in Bohemia (part of the present-day Czech Republic), Gustav Mahler was part of a German-speaking Jewish family in the Austrian Empire. The second…

…legacy. Early Life and Background Born in the Austrian village of Rohrau on March 31, 1732, Joseph Haydn entered a world far removed from the grandeur and prestige of the…

…Early Years Born on April 1, 1873, in the village of Semyonovo, near Staraya Russa, Russia, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff hailed from a lineage with both military and musical roots. His…

…great reverence. Early Life Frédéric François Chopin was born on either February 22nd or March 1st, 1810, in the small village of Żelazowa Wola, near Warsaw in the Duchy of…

…a quaint village near Worcester, England, Edward William Elgar was the fourth of seven children. Elgar’s father, William, was a professional violinist and a piano tuner who owned a music…